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// Common Core Grades 6-8: Literature Stories, Drama, Poetry //


 * // Little Women // by Louisa May Alcott (1869) Lexile 1210
 * // The Adventures of Tom Sawyer // by Mark Twain (1876) Lexile 950
 * “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost (1915)
 * // The Dark Is Rising // by Susan Cooper (1973) Lexile 920
 * // Dragonwings // by Laurence Yep (1975) Lexile 870
 * // Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry // by Mildred Taylor (1976) Lexile 920

// South Milwaukee Middle School Grades 6-8: Literature Stories, Drama, Poetry //


 * // Walk Two Moons // by Sharon Creech (1994) Lexile 770
 * // Old Yeller // by Fred Gibson (1956) Lexile 910
 * // The Outsiders // by S.E. Hinton (1967) Lexile 750

//Common Core Grades 9-10 Literature Stories, Drama, Poetry// //South Milwaukee High School Common Core Grades 9-10 Literature Stories, Drama, Poetry//
 * // The Tragedy of Macbeth // by William Shakespeare (1592) Lexile 1350
 * “Ozymandias” by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1817)
 * “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe (1845)
 * “The Gift of the Magi” by O. Henry (1906) Lexile 940
 * // The Grapes of Wrath // by John Steinbeck (1939)
 * // Fahrenheit 451 // by Ray Bradbury (1953) Lexile 890
 * // The Killer Angels // by Michael Shaara (1975)
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 * ** 11 **
 * // Romeo and Juliet // by William Shakespeare (1592) Lexile 1350
 * //Animal Farm (1945)// by George Orwell Lexile1370
 * // Lord of the Flies // (1954) by William Golding Lexile 770
 * //Night//
 * // Of Mice and Men // (1937) by John Steinbeck Lexile 630
 * // To Kill a Mockingbird // (1960) by Harper Lee Lexile 870

Common Core Literature Stories, Drama, Poetry Grades 11-CCR
 * “Ode on a Grecian Urn” by John Keats (1820)
 * // Jane Eyre // by Charlotte Brontë (1848) Lexile 890
 * “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” by Emily Dickinson (1890)
 * // The Great Gatsby // by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925) Lexile 1070
 * // Their Eyes Were Watching God // by Zora Neale Hurston (1937) Lexile 1080
 * // A Raisin in the Sun // by Lorraine Hansberry (1959)
 * // The Namesake // by Jhumpa Lahiri (2003)

South Milwaukee High School Literature Stories, Drama, Poetry Grades 11-CCR
 * Scarlet Letter
 * // Huck Finn //
 * // The Great Gatsby // by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925) Lexile 1070
 * // Their Eyes Were Watching God // by Zora Neale Hurston (1937) Lexile 1080
 * // Hamlet //
 * // Crime and Punishment //
 * // Kite Runner //